history of honesty and a high level of central bank independence. According to our respondents, the Federal Reserve is the … most credible, transparent and independent central bank out of seven large central banks. The ECB is not perceived as …

, this will be illustrated for the cases of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the US. The results are based …

from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most …

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain …, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of …

volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a … bank. Using a dynamic panel model estimated by GMM for a mixed sample of more than 1500 banks from 65 countries, we find no … evidence of persistence in bank growth. However, our findings suggest significant persistence in bank profitability. Moreover …

, Italy and the UK). The empirical results suggest that inflation in France and Italy is nonstationary. However, while for the … parameters at each frequency separately, and adopt this framework to model quarterly prices in three European countries (France … former country this applies both to the zero and the seasonal frequencies, in the case of Italy the nonstationarity comes …

Using high-frequency transaction data for the three largest European markets (France, Germany and Italy), this paper …